Immaculate Conception of Mary Apostolate

Feast of the Immaculate Conception Readings Reflection Today is an Holy Day of obligation – sometimes I wish they would change the wording to Holy Day of celebration – and it is appropriate to reflect on the readings for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception. The first reading, Gn 3:20, the woman is given a name of Eve, meaning “mother of all the living.” Catholics know that Mary is the New Eve. Hence, we know that Mary is Our Mother, see John 19:27. The second reading, Eph 1:3-6, 11-12, once again has a familial character when it says “in [...]

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